I just came across this article about care and maintenance of Bosch batteries:
How to look after and extend the life of your Bosch eBike Battery
It explained a number of things I did not know about the Bosch batteries. Specifically interesting to me were the sections on what constitutes a charge cycle, charging with inverters, the effects of temperature, and battery conditioning.
However, the article is a few years old and now we know the advice to always "top off" your bike battery after a ride is not actually the best practice. For more information on that, see this post in the EBR forums: https://electricbikereview.com/foru...charge-at-a-lower-amperage.22302/#post-135200
Myself, I have adopted the practice of using an inexpensive timer to charge the battery into the 70-80% region. It hasn't taken long to get good at guessing how much charging I need to reach that level. If I have a long ride planned I put the charger on again a couple of hours prior to the ride to fully charge it.
By the way, I inquired of Grin technolgies regarding a Bosch adapter for their Satiator charger, and received the following reply:
Bosch makes their own proprietary plug which we would have to license from them. So the short answer is no we would not be carrying their plug.
You could cut the charger wire from your current Bosch charger and splice it into one of our unterminated Satiator cables. But you have to hack the signal lines to allow for charging current to flow (we tested this ourselves) and even then, the maximum current it allows is 5A.
This sounds like an interesting science project to me, but I'll be waiting for my battery to be out of warranty before I attempt it!
How to look after and extend the life of your Bosch eBike Battery
It explained a number of things I did not know about the Bosch batteries. Specifically interesting to me were the sections on what constitutes a charge cycle, charging with inverters, the effects of temperature, and battery conditioning.
However, the article is a few years old and now we know the advice to always "top off" your bike battery after a ride is not actually the best practice. For more information on that, see this post in the EBR forums: https://electricbikereview.com/foru...charge-at-a-lower-amperage.22302/#post-135200
Myself, I have adopted the practice of using an inexpensive timer to charge the battery into the 70-80% region. It hasn't taken long to get good at guessing how much charging I need to reach that level. If I have a long ride planned I put the charger on again a couple of hours prior to the ride to fully charge it.
By the way, I inquired of Grin technolgies regarding a Bosch adapter for their Satiator charger, and received the following reply:
Bosch makes their own proprietary plug which we would have to license from them. So the short answer is no we would not be carrying their plug.
You could cut the charger wire from your current Bosch charger and splice it into one of our unterminated Satiator cables. But you have to hack the signal lines to allow for charging current to flow (we tested this ourselves) and even then, the maximum current it allows is 5A.
This sounds like an interesting science project to me, but I'll be waiting for my battery to be out of warranty before I attempt it!